tracks

Pillowcase
Birthday Envelope
Christy Pickle
Jake's Interlude
Now Here
Tallis Canon
Daddy's Little Earthling
Ephemeral
Second Polar Body
Always Forget You
Bad Dog
It Gets Worse
Long Song Part One
Truce
Conversation Hearts
Graduation Song
Just Another Joe
No Will
Unaware
Exchange St.
Nunc 176
I Wish I Had A Stove
The Boat On Home To You
Hardware Store Boy
Hold Myself Up
Long Song Part Two
Christy Pickle (reprise)
Here Comes The Blame
The Girl Who Has Everything
Everything Has The Girl
New England Music
Rack & Pinion
Never Comes Too Soon
Off The Face Of The Earth
Other People's Coffee
Dog Leg
Double-Date Brad
Backtracked Baby
As They Might
(I Was An) Intern At Spin
Wallet Full Of Ones
Vorion Promises A Spectacle Of Power
Around Mountain
After Everyone's Gone To Bed
Involver
Supergirlfriend
Mole Hill
Penned In
Sparkling Wine Regrets
Billiard
Lighthouse
Myrtle '95
The Ballad Of Bobby Barnes
The Technomancer
Edgar Martinez
Cop On A Horse
Double Reverse
How The Mail Works
Quasi-Fascination
Denise Digs The Vibes
Windmill
Flower Hole
Rosasharn
Hardly Needs Ironing!
That All Depends
Bad Dog Part Two
Baby's Going Through Some Change
You're A Writer Now
Still Want To Be Your Man
They're All Rats
My Mad Hatter
Wilson Calls It Quits
The Plotter
Inches From Doom
On The Rug Again
Pretend You're Famous
Will Bite
The Building Of The Bed
Old Girlfriendses
DM
This Piece Of Paper
Empathos
Treehouse
You Showed Them To Me
Of Such Is The Kingdom Of Heaven
Like A Truck
Now What
There Should Be Wheels On Everything
Planetarium
The Kind Of Arithmetic I Like
Christina Stopped Playing Her Violin
He Don't Treat Her Right
Rutting Season
In Defense Of Inertia
Into The Oubliette
The American Standard Is Slipping (And It's All Your Fault)
The Mighty Battlecat
Dumb Show
I Died Today (For Just A Minute)
Find The Stoned Guy
All You Expect From This
You Are So Mean To Me
Robert Earl Hughes
You Forget, You Get Wet
Household Name
Endless Screw
Champion Said No
My Mad Hatter 1998
Jake's Interlude 98
The First Town To See The Sun
Hot New Englander Sandwich
This Is What I Saw (demo)
Power Shower
Ceiling Fan (demo)
Should Have Been A Cello
Auction At The Graveyard
Theme For Meat Preparation
Hate To Disappoint You
Tomorrow I'll Change (demo)
They Declared It Impossible
And Then He Forged It
Macaroon Muse
Soundtrack To A Windsurfing Video
Pardon Your French (demo)
Cafard
Keep It With You (demo)
And Again I Felt Rich
The Invisible Veil Of Seekers
Sunday Night Salvage
He Who Supplied It
In The Dark, The Lamp Is Dark
Who's Better Than You?
Roofbuilder
Disconcerto
The Sky Is, Too
His Heart Wasn't In The Haunting
Fish Party
Somebody's Feeling Crabby
In The Loft (demo)
Who Do I Flip Off?
Don't Ever Get Turned Down Again!
Haven't Written A Song
Saturday 6:04 P.M.
That Means Everything In The World
The Second Coffer (demo)
If You Knew Me So Well (demo)
Bad By The Good
I Will Never Suffer Again
Thunder In The Snow
Get Up Or Sleep In?
The Stegosaurus [sic]
The Envelope Pushes Back (demo)
Masterpieces Linger Daily
She's Been There All The Time
Keep Digging
Midnight Dip
Thanks For The Great Performance (In My Dreams)
Round And Round!
Seraphim
The Western Sieve
Start Spreading The News
No One In San Diego Gave A Shoot
Wash The Water
Burning, Burning
Aim At The Night
If We Grew Up Together
Demolition Derby
In Yanistin (That's The Way It Goes)
The Sin Of Obligations
The Sound Of Hartford
Up On The Deck (demo)
Glockenspiel Song
The Baby And The Bathwater
I.M.U.
Reunion
Farewell To Straight Canada
The Volta
Bad Luck And Dubious Decisions
You're Gonna Regret That (When It's Gone)
The Scheduled Show (demo)
The Revolutionary Manifesto Of Thunderegg (Judy Collins)
Even We Have Angels (Your Pretty Little Angels)
This Is Just Like California!
It Took A Week And A Day (To Drink Those Twelve Sodas)
The Jealousy Of A Monogamous-Type Bird
One A.M., Princeton, NJ, 8/16/00
The Drapes Come Open, Revealing The Grand Ballroom
In The Loft
If I Went On A Diet
This Is What I Saw
What Was I Gonna Do?
And Again I Felt Rich
The Envelope Pushes Back
The Second Coffer
Tomorrow I'll Change
Ceiling Fan
(Do) The Curfew
The Terror Door
Pardon Your French
Planetarium Pts. 1 & 2
Keep It With You
What About (The Children)
The Scheduled Show
I'm A Fool Again
(I Was A) Long Way From Home
If You Knew Me So Well
Sunday On The Promenade
Deliverance From Crack Rock
Up On The Deck
When The Cables Break
Plaza Song
Your Pretty Little Angels
Little Yellow Candy
Sweetest One
Aristides' Little Piggies
Blazin' In Princeton (demo)
Charity And Jenna
Chris, Matt, Stephen
Crack Rock Ending
EK And Jason
Love One Another, With A Pure Heart, Fervently
Radio Show Feat. Acetone
Radio Show Feat. Acetone, Pt. 2
Should Probably Hang Up The Phone
Steve And Ruth
Thunderegg In Chinese
Thunderegg In French
Thunderegg In Greek
Thunderegg In Greek, The Next Morning
Thunderegg In Irish
Thunderegg In Swedish
Thunderegg In Ukrainian

notes

CD-ROM with108-page lyric booklet. Includes mp3 versions, in some cases edited, of the first eight Thunderegg albums: Universal Nut, New England Music, Personnel Envelo-File, Thunderegg, Powder To The People, In Yanistin, The Envelope Pushes Back, and Sweetest One (previously unreleased).

[back cover] Eight albums, 213 newly mastered songs, 523 minutes of mp3 files on a single data CD. The collected Thunderegg from 1995 to 2004, recorded to four-track cassette. Plus bonus tracks, album notes, and a 108-page lyric book. This compilation © 2006 Thunderegg. This is book number _____ of a limited edition of one thousand.

[book copyright page] Open Book collects the first eight Thunderegg albums, which were recorded to four-track cassette between 1995 and 2004. All songs, unless otherwise noted, were written, played, and recorded by Will Georgantas and are legitimized by BMI. This compilation © 2006 Thunderegg. Printed in Athens, Georgia, by Burman Printing. CD manufactured in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, by CDMan Disc, Inc. First Edition.

Universal Nut (1995; tracks 1–27)
Originally released on cassette only in October 1995. Songs 1–19 and 27 were recorded to four-track between June and August 1995 at 31 High Street, New Haven, CT. Songs 20–26 were recorded in September 1995 at 106 Exchange Street, New Haven, CT. Remixed to CD in Princeton, NJ, on June 5, 2000. Lead vocals on “Jake’s Interlude” and backup vocals on “Christy Pickle (reprise)” by Jake Fournier. Lead vocals and barking on “Bad Dog” by Merritt Lear. Due to space considerations, “Xantippe,” “Sexy Swineherder,” and “Her Shotgun Life” have been omitted from the original release.

New England Music (1996; tracks 28-55)
Originally released on cassette only in May 1996. Songs 28–38 were recorded at 106 Exchange Street, New Haven, CT, between September 1995 and February 1996. Songs 39–55 were recorded at 411 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY, April and May 1996. Remixed to CD in Princeton, NJ, on June 7, 2000. Guest musician: Drew Margolin, lead and harmony awe in “Vorion Promises a Spectacle of Power.” Drew Margolin appears courtesy of Mezzanine. “Vorion Promises a Spectacle of Power” features excerpts from a speech by Vorion, a rocket-car/peaceful alien visitor who happened to have been sent to the New Haven Coliseum Monster Truck Rally to deliver his message on the Power of Dreams. Due to space considerations, “Rangement Verticale,” “The Lord of the Empty Beer Bottles,” “Day After Day,” “Harmonica I,” “Leeza Has Been Briefed on Slack,” “This Is a Beer Ad,” and “Blue Moon” have been omitted from the original release.

Personnel Envelo-file (1997; tracks 56–83)
Originally released on cassette only in February 1997. All of these songs were recorded between June 1, 1996 and February 1, 1997 at 411 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY. Remixed to CD in Princeton, NJ, on June 9, 2000. Due to space considerations, “Chimney Climbers,” “High Falutin’ Cowboy,” “Quaran-Teen,” “The Voice,” “Liz Phair Is in My Spit Chain,” “St. Joan,” and “Coming to the Chorus” have been omitted from the original release.

Thunderegg (1997; tracks 84–108)
Originally released on cassette only in November 1997. Songs 84–88 were recorded at 411 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY, February to April 1997. Songs 89–95 were recorded at 81 Cleveland Lane, Princeton, NJ, June and July 1997. Songs 96–108 were recorded at 510 West 110th Street, New York, NY, September to November 1997. Remixed to CD in Princeton, NJ, on June 9, 2000. Due to space considerations, “Ephemeral 97,” “Jetlag,” “She Sells Seashells,” and “What Was I Gonna Do?” have been omitted from the original release.

Powder to the People (1998; tracks 109–143)
Originally released in limited quantities, for internal use only, in August 1998. All songs were
recorded to four-track July and August 1998 at 510 West 110th Street, New York, NY, except for “Theme for Meat Preparation,” which was recorded there in October 1997. Mixed to CD in Princeton, NJ, on May 11, 2000. Some song titles have been changed since the original album release.

In Yanistin (2000; tracks 144–186)
Originally released in September 2000. Tracks 158, 162, 185, and portions of 168 and 172 were recorded between September 1998 and March 1999 at 2790 Broadway, New York, NY. Songs 145–148 were recorded there to four-track during that same period. Spoken portion of 185 was recorded at 52 Webster Avenue, New Rochelle, NY, October 1999. Track 144 was recorded at Katie Dutton’s home in Darien, CT, in January 2000. Songs 149–157 and 159–161 were recorded to four-track at 81 Cleveland Lane, Princeton, NJ, February and March 2000. Songs 163–169 and 171–186 were recorded there in July and August 2000. Song 170 was recorded on Sherman Street in Hartford, CT, in August 2000. Some song titles have been changed since the original album release.

The Envelope Pushes Back (2000; tracks 187–202)
Originally released in October 2000. Songs 188, 190, 196, and 201 were recorded at 81 Cleveland Lane, Princeton, NJ, May and June 2000. Songs 191, 193–195, and 197–200 were recorded at 46 Pocomo Road, Nantucket, MA, September 2000. Songs 189, 192, and 202 were recorded at 510 West 110th Street, New York, NY, 1998. Song 187 was recorded at 357 Edgecombe Avenue, New York, NY, October 2000. “Again I Felt Rich” was previously released on Powder to the People.

Sweetest One: Three-Track Demos (2004; tracks 203–214)
All songs previously unreleased. Song 212 was recorded at 357 Edgecombe Avenue, New York, NY, December 2000. Songs 203, 205, 208, and 211 were recorded at 46 Pocomo Road, Nantucket, MA, October 2002; songs 204, 206, 209–210, and 213–214 were recorded there in August 2004. Song 207 was recorded at 851 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY, March 2003. Song 214 was also partially recorded on the 49th Street N/R platform sometime in 2001, and Keith Woodfin added drums in September 2004 in the basement of 180 Springdale Road, Princeton, NJ. All of these songs were recorded to the Tascam Porta07 four-track, but with one track left open in anticipation of adding drums later. This may happen yet.

Bonus tracks (215–232)

credits

Booklet Editor – Jennifer DePrima
Liner Notes – Drew Margolin
Mastered By – Carl Saff
Written By, Recorded By, Vocals, Instruments, Illustration, Booklet Editor – Will Georgantas

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